Jeff Connelly Poet Lyric

A Is For Apple

Took knowledge in a logical way
Took out books starting with "A"
After a few months and a week
Wasn't even close to the "B's"
But I could tell you anything you wanted to know about aardvarks and artichokes

But I kept at it figurin I'll get there
Sat so long wore a hole in my chair
My beard grew longer couldn't stop to shave
And as it grayed I was near the end of the "A's"
Couldn't wait to learn all about buttered beans and brussel sprouts

Well look back now I think I should've
Started at age four then maybe I would've
Been to the "D's" before I died
But in the "C's" I learned how to cry
Cultivate cucumbers correctly create conversations continuously colloquially called chewing cud

I learned all about alliteration ages ago

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Panagiota Romios March 2, 2019 at 9:30 AM Really good, Jeff! Great concept for A poem Panagiota. Jeff Connelly March 2, 2019 at 9:36 AM Thank you. Occasionally I throw in some old lyrics written for a band The Denim Dirt Farmers. This is one of them. So not A poem but a song. Thanks Panagiota.

Jeff Connelly February 24, 2019 at 11:39 AM Another the Denim Dirt Farmers song lyrics. Thanks Maureen. I just wrote one for you right now before work. Thanks for every thing Maureen.

Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart February 24, 2019 at 9:10 AM Oh this one is FUN! Clever ink :) xomo! Jeff Connelly February 24, 2019 at 10:46 PM I throw in a few of my the Denim Dirt Farmers lyrics when I have anything to say. I have to say, Maureen, that I am proud of those lyrical days, and the Farmers got good reviews until (as a fellow Canadian of yours- Neil Young- predicted, "Digital music will ruin the music industry."< a paraphrase) But it came true. The Farmers last project "Work Week" was a 6 disc set, one CD being my lyrics. It was selling complete for $25, but not a single person bought the entire set. Songs were sold individually for a download of 98 cents. So just on "Work Week" I wrote at least 70 song lyrics. I'll never put them all on this site. It's not me anymore Maureen. But as always, thank you so much for your comments.